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LicenseNokia Mediamaster television set top box for use with ONdigital
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Nokia Mediamaster television set top box for use with ONdigital
Science Museum Group Collection
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum
Nokia Mediamaster television set top box for use with ONdigital prepaid digital television service, made by Nokia, Sweden, 1997-2002.
In Britain the first terrestrial digital television services, which were introduced in the late 1990s, were pay-to-view rather than free access. Viewers subscribed to a service and a set top box, like this example, to use with their television to access the services. ONdigital, later ITV Digital, offered an early digital television service. However, the service closed in 2002 as it was unable to compete with the better established satellite services offered by Sky.
Details
- Category:
- Computing & Data Processing
- Object Number:
- 2014-139
- Materials:
- plastic (unidentified) and electrical components
- Measurements:
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overall: 70 mm x 385 mm x 260 mm, 1.84 kg
- type:
- television component
- credit:
- Museum Purchase
